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Article: Is the FAA doing enough to make flying safe? (Federal Aviation Administration)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 11, 1985
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Critics of the Federal Aviation Administration contend that the agency is unable to enforce safety rules effectively, and events of recent months lend them a lot of ammunition.
A series of aviation accidents involving small airlines is stirring controversy over effectiveness of the government's air-safety enforcer, the Federal Aviation Administration.
Consider these recent events-
* A chartered Galaxy Airlines flight went down after takeoff from Reno on January 21, killing 69 aboard. It was the 12th crash of a Lockheed Electra turboprop in the past 26 years. Last spring, both the Secret Service and presidential candidate Jesse Jackson ...